KJV King James Version
This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Numbers 20:13
This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.
WEB World English Bible
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
ASV American Standard Version
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
These are waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have ‘striven’ with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.
Surrounding context — Numbers 20
10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts [also].
12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
13 This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we [are] in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
Topics connected to this verse
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
הֵ֚מָּהH1992 · hem.mahthey(masc.)מֵ֣יH4325 · ma.yimwaterמְרִיבָ֔הH4809 · me.ri.vahMeribahאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichרָב֥וּH7378 · rivto contendבְנֵֽי־H1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵ֖לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelאֶת־H854 · etwithיְהוָ֑הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDוַיִּקָּדֵ֖שׁH6942 · qa.dashto consecrate: consecateבָּֽם׃ סH9038 · hemthem
Cross-references
Psalm 95:8Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, [and] as [in] the day of temptation in the wilderness:Exodus 17:7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?Deuteronomy 33:8And of Levi he said, [Let] thy Thummim and thy Urim [be] with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, [and with] whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;Deuteronomy 32:51Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.Psalm 106:32-48They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:Isaiah 5:16But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.Ezekiel 20:41I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.Ezekiel 36:23And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I [am] the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.Ezekiel 38:16And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
Compare classic commentaries on Numbers 20:13
Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.
Compare commentaries →